History
Hosoya Station opened on 10 May 1956 as a passenger-only stop on the Japan National Railways Futamata Line, in what is now Kakegawa, Shizuoka Prefecture. It served diesel railcar passengers as an unstaffed station. On 15 March 1987 the Futamata Line was transferred to the third-sector Tenryu Hamanako Railroad and became part of the Tenryu Hamanako Line. The station lies 6 kilometres from the line terminus at Kakegawa. It has a single ground-level side platform with a small wooden waiting room and no station building, and it remains unstaffed today.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
The next stop east, Ikoinohiroba Station, is only 500 metres away, with a road running parallel between them.